Half a Ton of Buried Gold is at the Center of Tom Collins’s New Novel.

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February 24, 2023

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Half a Ton of Buried Gold is at the Center of Tom Collins’s New Novel

A gang of confederate irregulars stormed a Union train carrying gold. Unable to outrun pursuing troops, the surviving train robbers stashed the gold in Western North Carolina where it remained waiting to be discovered.

Treasure of the Diary, the seventh book in author Tom Collins’s Mark Rollins Adventure series, weaves historical fiction and familiar places into an educational and entertaining adventure mystery when three college students discover a 150-year-old diary. The old journal belonged to a Confederate prisoner of war. The reader relives events of the Civil War and the plight of prisoners as the students read through the diary—page by page searching for a secret, one that they hope will lead them to buried gold.

M. Thomas (Tom) Collins writes from his home in Franklin, Tennessee, where his characters come to life and frequent familiar places in the bucolic middle Tennessee landscape and the majestic mountains of Western North Carolina. A pioneer entrepreneur of the information technology industry, Collins is now retired from the commercial world and devotes his time to creating his mystery series, Mark Rollins Adventures and authoring stories about Asheville and Western North Carolina. His book Exploring Asheville—Its History Attractions, Mysteries, Ghosts, and Tall Tales earned the top spot as the 2022 winner in the regional literature category at both the Independent Press Awards and the NYC Big Books Awards. Also winning in the Big Book Awards was his novel, Beyond Visual Range, as a 2022 Distinguished Favorite in Military Fiction.

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Collins’s books are available from neighborhood bookstores and online sources. E-book editions are available on Amazon, Google Play, Apple iBooks,  Smashwords, and other online bookstores. Audio editions are available on Amazon, iTunes,and directly from Audible.com.

To request a review copy of this or other books by the author, or inquire about a live or online appearance, contact the author at www.authortomcollins.com.

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  Franklin Author Tom Collins’s Sixth Mystery Moves to Outer Space

Franklin, TN – While sheltering in place for the COVID-19 pandemic, local author Tom Collins put the finishing touches on his seventh book and sixth mystery in his Mark Rollins Adventures series. Collins writes from his home in Franklin, Tennessee, where his characters come to life and frequent familiar places in the bucolic middle Tennessee landscape. What makes Collins’s latest mystery, Beyond Visual Range, different is that his Nashville heroines take the story into outer space. The author explained:

“For more than two years, I've known that I wanted to write about the problems faced by our military drone pilots. That mission was reinforced when I read the New York Times story by Eyal Press titled The Wounds of the Drone Warrior. However, I was missing a compelling plot until real life events supplied the material I needed for my story--the impeachment, the mysterious X-37B space plane, and the migration of retiring military flag officers to the Music City area.  Proving again that real life is the material of good fiction.”  

More about the story, Beyond Visual Range – Two women drone pilots battle in outer space to defend their country. One is a former fighter pilot who, after a crash, now flies from a wheelchair. This dynamic female drone crew from Nashville, Tennessee, now based in Florida, is drafted to defend the United States from a rogue military element threatening to use force to overthrow the government. Their weapons are twenty-foot tungsten rods. A single rod dropped from orbit would strike Earth at ten times the speed of sound with the impact of a nuclear weapon. As weapons are readied, our heroines find they are Beyond Visual Range.

M. Thomas (Tom) Collins is one of the pioneer entrepreneurs of the information technology industry. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ALM publication Law Technology News for  his contribution to the use of technology in the legal services community.  Citytech, a London-based publication,  called him an "outstanding individual and visionary" when he was named as one of the Top 100 Global Tech Leaders. Although retired from the commercial world, he continues to write and speak on leadership and management as well as pen his series of Mark Rollins Adventure mysteries.

For more information about Tom Collins’s book, to inquire about a review copy, or to schedule an interview, please contact him at tom.collins@i65n.com.

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